Randy Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Hi all, I have a working(?) Epson SMD-340 HD drive that I am trying to get to work as an HD floppy in my Mega STe. I have the correct chips in the Mega except the TOS version is 2.05, which should still work, the drive that came with the Mega is a DSDD Epson SMD-380 which wasn't working at first but is now operational, well of a sort as some disks won't read, which I assumed were old, bad disks. However, some of those bad disks can be read by the 340 in DSDD mode, not all, but a few do come up on the 340, however the Lord-cracked Dungeon Master won't save, it tries and comes up with a system error 41 and a couple of bombs, weird. The Mega STe has been fully re-capped stem-to-stern, these issues were the same/similar before the board re-cap. Followed all the recommendations for setting the Mega and 340 for HD operation, when trying to format the format program comes up with "High Density" in the dialog box but I have not been able to get a single HD floppy to format in HD. When I first used the 340 in HD format, it did format for a little while then stopped and has never worked in HD since. Any suggestions welcomed, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjlazer Posted June 27, 2020 Share Posted June 27, 2020 I think to format you need TOS 2.06. I have a set for sale if interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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